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Spam Resource: Gmail: new spam filter update featuring RETVec
- December 8, 2023
- Posted by: Top Deliverability
- Category: Industry News Spam Resource
Al Iverson just posted a insightful post on Spam Resource:
Wow! This is pretty cool. Ron Amadeo from ARS Technica reports on a significant, AI-based spam filter update at Gmail. Gmail can now understand “adversarial text manipulations” using a new mechanism called RETVec (Resilient & Efficient Text Vectorizer), meaning that it basically renders graphics of everything written to compare it all for spam classification purposes, based on the words and other bits extracted from the message, basically regardless of how they’re encoded. Using emojis to trick people in spam, because writing something it out in words will get you blocked? That might not fly now. Using cyrillic characters (that look visually similar to a user but look different to a text classifier) to try to skate by Gmail filters and hide the nature of what you’re sending? Nuh-uh. (Interestingly, I’ve known for a while now that Gmail can take issue with certain special characters or emojis in certain places in
Read more here: Gmail: new spam filter update featuring RETVec
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